Une révolution esthétique le Balzac de Rodin Histoire analysée en images et œuvres d’art
Auguste Rodin French. Cast by Georges Rudier French. modeled 1897, cast 1972. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 800. In 1891 Rodin was commissioned to construct a posthumous monument to the illustrious literary figure Honoré de Balzac. It took the sculptor seven years to arrive at the final study from which this bronze was cast.
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RODIN'S "BALZAC": SYMBOL OF 19TH-CENTURY HISTORY AND ART Marcel L. Mendelson Rodin's "Balzac" is, of all his major works, probably the most. Le 'Balzac' de Rodin" in La Revue des Arts I, Paris, 1952, p. 38. 5 E. Werdet, op cit., p. 197. 110 Nineteenth-Century French Studies his personality in all its variety and unity. The self portraits of Rem-
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Le Monument à Balzac (aussi intitulé Le Balzac de Rodin) est une statue de bronze dont le modèle a été réalisé par Auguste Rodin entre 1891 et 1897, qui représente l'écrivain Honoré de Balzac. Il en existe quatre versions.
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Ayant mené parallèlement des recherches sur le corps de Balzac et sur sa tête, Rodin aboutit à un assemblage dans lequel ces deux éléments véhiculent des valeurs propres. Tandis que la tête avait évolué d'un portrait ressemblant vers un concentré de traits expressifs, le corps avait effectué un trajet inverse, tendant vers une.
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In 1891, the Société des Gens de Lettres commissioned Rodin to create a monument to the famous French author Honoré de Balzac. The sculptor worked on this project for eight years, presenting his final version of the monument at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1898.
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Balzac had died 40 years before Rodin received the commission for the monument. In order to better understand the writer's physical appearance, Rodin went to Balzac's hometown near Tours and found someone that resembled Balzac to model for him. He produced over 50 clay studies that later were cast in bronze and sold as independent artworks.
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(cast 1926/33) Auguste Rodin French, 1840-1917 In 1891 Auguste Rodin was commissioned by a literary society to produce a posthumous monument to the French writer Honoré de Balzac. Over the course of seven years, the sculptor created numerous studies for the composition, including this deliberately ungainly nude portrait.
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In 1891 Auguste Rodin was commissioned to make a commemorative statue of the famous French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850). With great thoroughness Rodin studied all existing portraits of Balzac, read all the books about him and paid several visits to Touraine, the area where the writer was born, to study local physiognomy. This head is part of a full length study.
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Commissioned to honor Honoré de Balzac, one of France's greatest novelists, Rodin spent seven years preparing for this sculpture, studying the writer's life and work, posing models who resembled him, and ordering clothes to his measurements.
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The Bronze Age, or The Age of Bronze, as it is more often titled in English, was the first full-scale figure that Rodin exhibited publicly under his own name, initially in 1877, at the Cercle Artistique in Brussels and later that year in the Paris Salon of the Société des Artistes Français.
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Furthermore, Rodin's works, including his Balzac, had ben the subject of frequent articles in newspapers and periodicals since the late 1890s. Several authors had written books about him, monographs, too, all abundantly illustrated. But pictures of Balzac were few and far between, and there were hardly any full-length shots of the monument.
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Auguste Rodin's battle with Balzac. On the anniversary of the sculptor's birth we look at the botched commission that became a great work. Auguste Rodin, who was born today, 12 November, in 1840, is known both for his classical brilliance, and for his innovative, impressionistic flair - a latter-day heir to sculptors of antiquity and a worthy contemporary of Monet and Manet.
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Balzac was one of the founders of the Societé as well as the second president of the organization. Upon his death in 1850 interest in creating a statue to commemorate the writer quickly developed under the leadership of Alexandre Dumas, père . Preparation
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What Rodin finally produced in 1897, after six years of labour, was a revolutionary monument. Stripped of the writer's usual attributes (armchair, pen,book…), his Balzac was not so much a portrait but a powerful evocation of the visionary genius whose gaze dominated the world, of the inspired creator draped in the monk's habit he used to.
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In 1939, nearly 22 years after Rodin's death the model was cast in bronze for the first time and placed on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, Paris France. Today casts and various studies of Balzac by Auguste Rodin can be found in many museum or art gallery collections around the world. Honoré de Balzac. Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) was a.
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Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) In 1891, Zola, the newly elected president of the Société des Gens de Lettres, chose Rodin to create the monument to Balzac, almost half a century after the writer's death. The sculptor embarked on an extensive campaign of research: talking to scholars and specialists, travelling to Touraine where he studied.